Is there a way to recover old iMessages?  Or is there a way to track iMessages?

Is there a way to recover old iMessages?  Are these messages held in the network somewhere?  If so, how easy is it to recover them?  I need to look up some messages for a file of mine.
Thank You

Look on the device.
If they've been deleted off the device, the only hope of finding them would be to restore to a backup created prior to them being deleted off the device.

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